Ghostbusters
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: July 15, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 52 Critic Reviews
Positive:
30
Mixed:
19
Negative:
3
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60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJul 18, 2016
Another hitch, for Feig, is that, whereas the cheesiness of the effects in the earlier “Ghostbusters” was part of its rackety charm, no current audience will settle for anything less than a welter of wizardry. And so he piles it on, until whole sections of the movie collapse beneath the visual crush. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJul 14, 2016
Silly is endangered these days, and normal has come under withering fire from stupendous, yet tedious, visual effects. Busting ghosts used to be a lot more fun. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJul 13, 2016
The new Ghostbusters is a pretty funny movie, a goofy take on the goofy original that has some good laughs and a dopey story. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJul 12, 2016
It is funny at times, it is scary at times, it is downright silly at times, and it is action-packed at times. In its best moments, it's all of those things at once. Read full review
60
Total FilmKate StablesJul 11, 2016
For all its warm-hearted fun, well-crafted thrills, careful nostalgia and girl-powered gadgetry, this fast-paced family film doesn’t always feel like a natural fit for Hollywood’s favourite genre-bender. Read full review
60
EmpireJonathan PileJul 10, 2016
The film works for the most part, and even though the laughs notably dry up as the CGI spectacular kicks into gear, its feelgood vibes will most likely have already won you over. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerJul 10, 2016
Warts and all, the new Ghostbusters is still one of the best tentpoles of the summer (admittedly, that’s not saying much). It doesn’t tarnish the legacy of the original movie, and its own legacy might have been even stronger if it hadn’t worried about paying homage to the old Ghostbusters quite so intensely. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJul 10, 2016
With a cast as daring and quick as this one, Ghostbusters is too mild and plays it too safe. Read full review
58
IndieWireEric KohnJul 10, 2016
While the new Ghostbusters successfully empowers female movie stars, that’s not the movie’s selling point. However, it’s the only justification for its existence. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaJul 14, 2016
The same weakness that has plagued a goodly portion of major releases this year that rely on past successes for their reason to exist rears up again: the lack of the new and fresh. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJul 13, 2016
The movie will disappoint basement-dwellers who worried a female-centric Ghostbusters would somehow ruin their childhoods, because it isn’t bad enough to hate. But the film is an even bigger letdown for fans of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, who are forced to play most of this material straight, with no room for comic improvisation. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 13, 2016
The script, by Feig and veteran “Madtv/The Heat” writer Kate Dippold, allows room for a sea of cameos with precious little that’s funny for any of the stars, or the “guest stars” to say. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJul 12, 2016
A cheerful summer lark that briefly achieves comic liftoff but peters out well before its overblown Times Square climax, it proudly demonstrates that mediocrity — whether in the hunting of malevolent apparitions or the making of a mainstream comedy — is not, and never has been, an exclusively male pursuit. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Jul 10, 2016
The all-new, mostly female Ghostbusters reboot is in theaters, full of terrific special effects, icky green slime, a horribly haunted Manhattan and, yes, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. But the big laughs you’d expect from a "Bridesmaids" reunion of director Paul Feig and stars Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy never materialize. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeJul 10, 2016
While both funnier and scarier than Ivan Reitman’s 1984 original, this otherwise over-familiar remake from “Bridesmaids” director Paul Feig doesn’t do nearly enough to innovate on what has come before. Read full review
42
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJul 10, 2016
Not even the funniest actors on the planet could save what is an occasionally humorous, but largely unremarkable rehash. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJul 11, 2016
The new Ghostbusters isn’t a horror, exactly. It’s just misbegotten. It never lives. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonJul 10, 2016
There is an easy camaraderie and chemistry among the central quartet, a harmony that continues when Chris Hemsworth, charmingly stupid, enters as the phantom-vanquishing squad's receptionist. Yet the main performers rarely get to display their individual idiosyncratic strengths. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJul 10, 2016
It's all busy-ness, noise and chaos, with zero thrills and very little sustainable comic buoyancy. Read full review
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